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Supermodel Elle McPherson was so convinced she was being watched by the press that she ordered a sweep of her entire home to check for bugs, the Old Bailey heard today.

But in fact the model, nicknamed The Body, was yet another victim of private investigator Glenn Mulcaire who hacked into her mobile phone to listen to her messages, said prosecuting counsel David Perry.

Mulcaire, 36, tracked down the voicemail messages of several celebrities and high-profile personalities to provide information to the News of the World.

Mr Perry said the model started noticing problems with her Vodafone mobile in the spring of last year.

She was soon informed that her pin code to access her messages had been reset. Mulcaire rang her voicemail box between April 4 and June 9 last year.

Mr Perry said: “She suspected that her messages had been listened to and so concerned was she about private information finding its way into the public domain she had her home swept to see if she was the subject of surveillance.”

Details including her address, mobile telephone number, pin code and Vodafone account number were all found in “working notebooks” belonging to Mulcaire.

PR guru Max Clifford was another victim with his voicemail being rung seven times between March 7 and May 3 last year, the court heard.

Mr Perry said Mr Clifford – who works with famous clients to sell their stories to the newspapers – did not provide information to the News of the World for “personal and professional reasons”.

Information regarding his home address, telephone number, O2 account number and pin code was also found listed in Mulcaire’s notebooks.